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Sharon Olds was born in 1942 in San Francisco and educated at Stanford University and Columbia University. She was the New York State Poet Laureate from 1998 to 2000. She teaches poetry workshops in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at New York University and was one of the founders of the NYU workshop program at Goldwater Hospital on Roosevelt Island in New York. Her work has received the Harriet Monroe Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Lamont Selection of the Academy of American Poets, and the San Francisco Poetry Center Award. She is a Chancellor of the Academy of... Read More
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Strike Sparks
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: September 28, 2004
Price: $17.95
A powerful collection from one of our most gifted and widely read poets–117 of her finest poems drawn from her seven published volumes.
Michael Ondaatje has called Sharon Olds’s poetry “pure fire in the hands” and cheered the “roughness and humor and brag and tenderness and completion in her work as she... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: September 28, 2004
Price: $17.95
A powerful collection from one of our most gifted and widely read poets–117 of her finest poems drawn from her seven published volumes.
Michael Ondaatje has called Sharon Olds’s poetry “pure fire in the hands” and cheered the “roughness and humor and brag and tenderness and completion in her work as she... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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One Secret Thing
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2008
Price: $16.95
Sharon Olds completes her cycle of family poems in a book at once intense and harmonic, playful with language, and rich with a new self-awareness and sense of irony.
The opening poem, with its sequence of fearsome images of war, serves as a prelude to poems of home in which humor, anger... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2008
Price: $16.95
Sharon Olds completes her cycle of family poems in a book at once intense and harmonic, playful with language, and rich with a new self-awareness and sense of irony.
The opening poem, with its sequence of fearsome images of war, serves as a prelude to poems of home in which humor, anger... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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The Dead and the Living
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: February 12, 1984
Price: $16.00
The 1983 Lamont poetry selection of the Academy of American Poets. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: February 12, 1984
Price: $16.00
The 1983 Lamont poetry selection of the Academy of American Poets. Read more >
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The Unswept Room
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: September 24, 2002
Price: $16.95
From Sharon Olds—a stunning new collection of poems that project a fresh spirit, a startling energy of language and counterpoint, and a moving, elegiac tone shot through with humor.
From poems that erupt out of history and childhood to those that embody the nurturing of a new generation of children and the... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: September 24, 2002
Price: $16.95
From Sharon Olds—a stunning new collection of poems that project a fresh spirit, a startling energy of language and counterpoint, and a moving, elegiac tone shot through with humor.
From poems that erupt out of history and childhood to those that embody the nurturing of a new generation of children and the... Read more >
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The Wellspring
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: January 30, 1996
Price: $18.00
Sharon Olds's dazzling new collection is a sequence of poems that reaches into the very wellspring of life. The poems take us back to the womb, and from there on to childhood, to a searing sexual awakening, to the shock of childbirth, to the wonder and humor of parenthood--and, finally, to... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: January 30, 1996
Price: $18.00
Sharon Olds's dazzling new collection is a sequence of poems that reaches into the very wellspring of life. The poems take us back to the womb, and from there on to childhood, to a searing sexual awakening, to the shock of childbirth, to the wonder and humor of parenthood--and, finally, to... Read more >
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Gold Cell
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: February 12, 1987
Price: $16.00
A new collection by the much praised poet whose second book THE DEAD AND THE LIVING, was both the Lamont Poetry Selection for 1983 and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: February 12, 1987
Price: $16.00
A new collection by the much praised poet whose second book THE DEAD AND THE LIVING, was both the Lamont Poetry Selection for 1983 and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Read more >
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One Secret Thing
Format: Hardcover, 112 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2008
Price: $26.95
In One Secret Thing, her ninth collection, Sharon Olds completes her cycle of family poems.
The book opens with a poem in twelve parts, which focuses on fearsome images of war. This vision of strife between nations is followed by indelible new poems of conflict within a family. Here are poems of... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 112 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2008
Price: $26.95
In One Secret Thing, her ninth collection, Sharon Olds completes her cycle of family poems.
The book opens with a poem in twelve parts, which focuses on fearsome images of war. This vision of strife between nations is followed by indelible new poems of conflict within a family. Here are poems of... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Blood, Tin, Straw
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: October 5, 1999
Price: $16.00
From Sharon Olds—a stunning new collection of poems that project a fresh spirit, a startling energy of language and counterpoint, and a moving, elegiac tone shot through with humor.
From poems that erupt out of history and childhood to those that embody the nurturing of a new generation of children and the... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: October 5, 1999
Price: $16.00
From Sharon Olds—a stunning new collection of poems that project a fresh spirit, a startling energy of language and counterpoint, and a moving, elegiac tone shot through with humor.
From poems that erupt out of history and childhood to those that embody the nurturing of a new generation of children and the... Read more >
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The Unswept Room
Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
On Sale: September 24, 2002
Price: $25.00
From Sharon Olds—a stunning new collection of poems that project a fresh spirit, a startling energy of language and counterpoint, and a moving, elegiac tone shot through with humor.
From poems that erupt out of history and childhood to those that embody the nurturing of a new generation of children and the... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
On Sale: September 24, 2002
Price: $25.00
From Sharon Olds—a stunning new collection of poems that project a fresh spirit, a startling energy of language and counterpoint, and a moving, elegiac tone shot through with humor.
From poems that erupt out of history and childhood to those that embody the nurturing of a new generation of children and the... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Strike Sparks
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: January 21, 2009
Price: $17.95
A powerful collection from one of our most gifted and widely read poets–117 of her finest poems drawn from her seven published volumes.
Michael Ondaatje has called Sharon Olds’s poetry “pure fire in the hands” and cheered the “roughness and humor and brag and tenderness and completion in her work as she... Read more >
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: January 21, 2009
Price: $17.95
A powerful collection from one of our most gifted and widely read poets–117 of her finest poems drawn from her seven published volumes.
Michael Ondaatje has called Sharon Olds’s poetry “pure fire in the hands” and cheered the “roughness and humor and brag and tenderness and completion in her work as she... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Unswept Room
Format: eBook, 144 pages
On Sale: May 20, 2009
Price: $16.00
From Sharon Olds—a stunning new collection of poems that project a fresh spirit, a startling energy of language and counterpoint, and a moving, elegiac tone shot through with humor.
From poems that erupt out of history and childhood to those that embody the nurturing of a new generation of children and the... Read more >
Format: eBook, 144 pages
On Sale: May 20, 2009
Price: $16.00
From Sharon Olds—a stunning new collection of poems that project a fresh spirit, a startling energy of language and counterpoint, and a moving, elegiac tone shot through with humor.
From poems that erupt out of history and childhood to those that embody the nurturing of a new generation of children and the... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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